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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

El Gato Negro Tapas

70/100
  • Liverpool, North West England
  • Modern Spanish tapas
  • By the glass
  • £££
  • Beta
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El Gato Negro is a modern Spanish tapas restaurant on Castle Street, cooking classic and contemporary small plates for sharing. Its wine programme is small but genuinely wine-led — independently sourced with a Master of Wine, and strongest in a dry-to-sweet sherry range that partners the food better than any house pour. It will suit anyone who enjoys eating and drinking their way across a table, and who is glad of sherry done properly.

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